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Updated: May 3, 2025
And all of us have like wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them. The passage to the Conciergerie was short and dark; the night in its vermin-haunted cells was long and cold. Next day, fifteen prisoners were put to the bar before Charles Darnay's name was called. All the fifteen were condemned, and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half.
The others were willing to consider what had happened to them, as a private affair. Penton gracelessly used that, and every private adventure for propaganda turned it sincerely in the way he thought it might benefit people.... He gave the papers a very bad poem The Prison Night. I remember but one line of it "The convict rasped his vermin-haunted hide."
How much Red Tape may there be, that could look round on the faces which now hem us in for our appearance here has caused a rush from all points to a common centre the lowering foreheads, the sallow cheeks, the brutal eyes, the matted hair, the infected, vermin-haunted heaps of rags and say, 'I have thought of this. I have not dismissed the thing.
Robbed of the inexpugnable shelter of the Casa Riego, she, too, was made to look into the depths; upon the animalism, the lusts, and the reveries of that sordid, vermin-haunted crowd. I felt for her a profound and shamed sorrow. It was like a profaning touch on the sacredness of her mourning for the dead, and on her clear and passionate vision of life. "Hombres de Rio Medio! Amigos!
Hence, in endeavoring to give our readers some account of Heine and his works, we shall not dwell lengthily on his failings; we shall not hold the candle up to dusty, vermin-haunted corners, but let the light fall as much as possible on the nobler and more attractive details.
After five years of unrequited toil, and unspeakable hardship in convict camps, five years of slaving by the side of human brutes, and of nightly herding with them in vermin-haunted huts, Ben Davis had become like them. For a while he had received occasional letters from home, but in the shifting life of the convict camp they had long since ceased to reach him, if indeed they had been written.
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